Three strong women
By: by Marie NDiaye ; translated by John Fletcher
Contributors: Fletcher, John, 1937-
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780857051073
Subjects: West Africans; Women; Self-realization in women; Fiction
Work titles: Trois femmes puissantes
Description: Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out of prison - and ultimately the trip endangers her marriage and her relationship with her own daughter, and drives her to the very edge of madness. Fanta, on the other hand, leaves Dakar to follow her husband Rudy to rural France. And it is through Rudy's bitter and guilt-ridden perspective that we see Fanta stagnate with boredom in this alien, narrow environment. Khady is forced into exile from Senegal because of poverty, because her husband is dead, because she is lonely and in despair. With other illegal immigrants, she embarks on a journey which takes her nowhere, but from which she will never return.
Notes: "First published in the French language as Trois femmes puissantes by Editions Gallinard, Paris, 2009"--Title page verso.

Translated from the French.